[HN Gopher] Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is ...
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Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is being
discontinued
Author : lurtbancaster
Score : 18 points
Date : 2022-09-01 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cadence.moe)
(TXT) w3m dump (cadence.moe)
| dspillett wrote:
| _> Before we start: If Bibliogram has been helpful to you, please
| consider making a donation!_
|
| Before asking me to consider a donation, consider cutting the
| silly referrer based moan about the the site that referred me to
| yours so I have to jump through a hoop to see the content.
| [deleted]
| textadventure wrote:
| It stands to reason that they don't care for HN referred
| donations as the hoop seems to be very deliberately put in
| place for a reason.
| fallingknife wrote:
| Referrer filter, so I right clicked and "open link in new tab"
| but still referrer filter. Don't like that the browser sends that
| info with that option. That should be equivalent to copy/pasting
| the URL.
| nailer wrote:
| Original contents :
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220901223055/https://cadence.m...
| prvit wrote:
| lol, OP completely missed out on the biggest IG ratelimit bypass.
| You could just use IPv6 and make literally millions of requests
| per second from a single server with a /48. (Oh! And before that
| you could just spoof X-Forwarded-For)
|
| I printed money using this to automatically take good usernames
| as they became available.
| carabiner wrote:
| How much did you make total?
| prvit wrote:
| A little over $2M, but that number keeps growing because I
| still have loads of usernames despite instagram patching the
| ratelimit bypass.
| ozarker wrote:
| Jesus, more power to you I guess
| unicornporn wrote:
| It's been nonfunctional for at least over a year. Changes to
| Instagram made impossible to bypass the wall protecting the
| garden (or landfill).
| rektide wrote:
| I found a really awesome "public instance" vps node that had a
| bunch of utils & anonymous public interfaces webapps (nitter,...)
| running on it for all.
|
| They also had a list of things they dont support, with reasons
| why. Meta interfacing were listed (including to bibliogram), and
| typically with links to fire-bot takedown requests to kingdom
| come. No one else has anything like this. Very very unique
| company.
| [deleted]
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Looks like there's a referrer filter for HN. Copy URL and open in
| a new tab, I guess?
|
| My personal Bibliogram instance has been blocked for months. With
| Instagram blocked as part of my wider PiHole block on Facebook's
| domain and public Bibliogram instances shutting down soon, I
| guess I'm going to just ignore Instagram links from now on.
| cercatrova wrote:
| I use an extension to strip referrer stuff from the URL, works
| well
| annadane wrote:
| Take down some of the most egregious pages and disinformation?
| No, we (Facebook/Meta) will waste our time shutting down anything
| remotely challenging to our monstrosity we're trying to conquer
| the world with (see also: shutting down the NYU Ad Observatory,
| or any countless other examples)
| Bakary wrote:
| What incentive have we given them to stop?
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